Sentences with phrase «developed over a century»

The fundamental values of our common Christian history that developed over the centuries connect us, although some of these have been forgotten.

Our modern day Christmas has been developing over the centuries.

Those in the far north benefit from having less light come in to their retina's, especially during times of snow... another example is the inuit people who naturally create a type of antifreeze in their blood... developed over centuries of a populous that is far more resistant to cold.

Many of our trusted brands were developed over a century ago by entrepreneurs who created quality foods and placed consumer satisfaction first.

Lasting love and the benefits of rearing progeny through a joint effort have developed over centuries of trial and error,...

By tracing the development of what we now call the «scientific method» — an approach, developed over centuries, that emphasizes experiments and observations rather than reasoning from first principles — he makes the argument that science, unlike other ways of interpreting the world around us, can offer true progress.

Asana has developed over the centuries as a practice that's intended to calm the nervous system to prepare the body for meditation.

Despite decades of relying on standardized test scores to assess and guide education policy and practice, surprisingly little work has been done to connect these measures of learning with the measures developed over a century of research by cognitive psychologists studying individual differences in cognition.

Three of the minds that I describe are primarily cognitive: the disciplined mind (mastering the major ways of thinking that human beings have developed over the centuries); the synthesizing mind (organizing the vast amount of information with which we are all regularly inundated); the creating mind (going beyond orthodox findings and methods to innovate, «think outside the box»).

At the same time the guidelines developed over centuries of publishing are changing as eBook samples becomes an ever more important form of book marketing.

Purpose is the biggest factor in the way dog breeds have developed over the centuries.

They are curious and want to do things together, so spend time teaching them obedience; some sports such as lure coursing or agility will give them a positive outlet for all of those hound instincts they've developed over the centuries.

Walking along historic mule paths, developed over the centuries to connect indivi...

Mayan cities were not all of the same style and size but changed and developed over centuries.

Of course, no one exists in a «vacuum» and further research took me back further to the UK and their civil wars over «religion» which then spawned the colonisation of the Americas and how that «society» then developed over centuries.

The entertainment and media industries are governed by arcane rules and precedents developed over a century.

Hot tubbing is an excellent illustration of how our traditional rights - based legal system, developed over centuries, can adapt to modern conditions.

However, keep in mind that cultural differences in power have developed over centuries, and while they may not be a 50 - 50 balance, there is some balance.

Not exact matches

«The test the California courts have developed over the 20th Century for classifying workers isn't very helpful in addressing this 21st Century problem.»

However, a stagnation or decline in height over the past century is an indication that certain countries in the developed, English - speaking world could do a better job of emphasizing good nutritional standards for their youth.

Much of the mergers and acquisitions movement and its strategy underlying corporate takeovers has followed the pattern developed by real estate investors over the past half century.

Given the above «status quo» scenario, the VALUATION model I developed for silver prices over the past century is relevant.

When this inflation develops, gold will become the attractive substitute it has always been over the centuries, especially under such economic conditions.

Unfortunately, «the Word» does not include the subject of «hell» (or «heaven») as it has been developed BY MEN over the centuries.

Look at how much trouble less than a century of nuclear power has already caused on this planet... what are the chances of something more catastrophic happening with that and / or more powerful technologies that develop over the next several hundred years?

Despite this the sects developed their own distinctive preferences, until by the 5th century A. H. when the majority of the Muslims seem to have agreed on Muhammad's priority over the others.

Over the centuries the Church developed a spirituality based on another fundamentally different paradigm.

Although historically it has not always resisted associating itself with Polish national interests, the Ukrainian Catholic Church today has vigorously embraced the Catholic social teaching begun under Leo XIII and developed over the last two centuries.

It DEVELOPED over many centuries.

Our physicality involved a necessary self - preservation instinct that led to protection of one's own self or kind over against that which was defined as other — a view not too dissimilar from what Cornel West develops in the late twentieth century as the «normative gaze that tends toward universalization of one «s own kind to the detriment of otherness.

Yet conservatives developed their political philosophy over the course of centuries with no help from Darwinists, and with no reference to shifting Darwinian stories.

Over the centuries Christians have developed two basic attitudes toward war.

Nevertheless, the present arrangements in America developed over two centuries have created built - in advantages for some, disadvantages for others.

Then, armed with the best possible understanding of the meaning of the faith to Christians over the centuries, we must develop our own meaning — and seek to communicate it to others in ways they can understand in today's culture.

In this regard, the parable is a key to the ways in which we ought to be communicating «the Gospel» story today, for the parable provides a necessary corrective to the increasingly verbal, stultifying, and just plain boring Protestant theology that has developed during the last two centuries — «a battle over words and what they mean.»

But the present story gives us a form of celebration developed over the seven or eight following centuries (12:21 - 27 appears to derive from the older J stratum; but 12:1 - 13, 43 - 49 is of the P character).

A professor of history and law at the University of Georgia, Larson begins by relating how the debate over Darwinism unfolded in America in the early part of the century, and developed into the warfare between science and religion that exploded in the trial (and continues to this day).

... As a Canadian looking south it seems almost ludicrous to watch the childish interaction of USA citizens about the healthcare question... Most of the developed countries especially Western and European countries have enjoyed top healthcare for its polulations for anywhere from 60 years to over a century... Why the USA refuses for once to look beyond it «s borders is a complete mystery to the outside world....

But the narrative gives us a form of celebration developed over the seven or eight following centuries (12:21 - 27 appears to be derived from the older J stratum; but 12:1 - 13, 43 - 49 is of the character of the Priestly history), since this developed meaning alone can represent the episode's true significance.

Above all things, the problem with the GOP according to Mann and Ornstein in a recent column in Salon, is that it «aspires to rewrite the social contract and role of government developed and affirmed over a century by both major political parties.»

He contended that it was quite legitimate for Christianity to evolve, as it had done, into the fully fledged form of Catholicism, and believed Harnack to be mistaken in thinking that, by stripping away what had developed over many centuries, he would find a solid and primitive kernel of essential Christianity.

Over the centuries — despite their identical appearance — the two strains of trout have developed differences in organic function.

He has brought in potentially great players, brought up wonderful youth players, developed the infrastructure to achieve great things, fought against the dinosaurs entrenched in the 19th century who are ¨ running ¨ the game, displayed dignity and nobility in the face of unremitting criticism from a small band of Arsenal ¨ supporters ¨ and the media, endured xenophobic pundits, questionable officiating, lean years after the stadium build, ever expanding competition for players from richer clubs and yet stayed true to his principles and still managed to bring in trophies and success over his 21 year reign.

Given the distinct Mahri culture, identity and language, developed over many centuries of autonomy, not to mention widespread disenchantment with Yemeni rule (ever more corrupt since the union of Yemen's south and north in 1990), Mahra's territorial integrity remains important.

On the Levellers» view, the Common Law had its origins in that society and, over centuries, developed the laws, customs, and usages that natural reason and social conditions dictated.

In the late 19th and early 20th century, this region attracted European immigrants who developed farms or took over existing ones, particularly from Italy and Poland.

Each is actually shorthand for a framework developed by moral philosophers over the centuries.

In science news around the world, NASA's Cassini mission is about to take its final plunge into the atmosphere of Saturn after 13 years providing an unprecedented view of the planet and its moons, a fight over whether to preserve or develop of one Europe's oldest gold mining sites heats up again, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves the first cancer gene therapy for people, a U.S. court gives a green light to a $ 1 billion lawsuit brought by the Guatemalan victims and survivors of mid — 20th century syphilis experiments by research institutions including Johns Hopkins University, and more.

Pedro Ferreira's book «The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity» essentially tells us what other people did with Einstein's general theory of relativity after he developed it.

Mathematicians developed the familiar 10 - digit numerical system, known as the Hindu - Arabic numerals, over the course of centuries.